The Warm Hands of Ghosts – Katherine Arden (2024)
From the bestselling author of The Bear and the Nightingale comes this haunting historical fantasy set in World War I, blending eerie supernatural elements with visceral wartime realism. In 1918, Canadian combat nurse Laura Iven returns to the front lines after receiving her brother Freddie’s mysterious last letter—sent after he was reported dead. Amid the trenches’ horrors, she encounters a shadowy fiddler who may hold the key to Freddie’s fate, weaving a tale of love, survival, and the thin veil between the living and the dead.
For Fans of Historical Dark Fantasy:
- The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue – V.E. Schwab – Similarly lyrical deals-with-the-devil energy.
- The Watchmaker of Filigree Street – Natasha Pulley – WWI-adjacent magic and clockwork mysticism.
- The Golem and the Jinni – Helene Wecker – Another immigrant fable with mythic weight.
“A lullaby for the damned, sung over No Man’s Land.”
